Picture a garment factory in Ashulia on a Tuesday morning. Machines hum, deadlines loom, and a buyer waits on a shipment.

Despite growth, agent banking is more effective at mobilising deposits than providing credit

Brendan Lynch, assistant US trade representative for South and Central Asia, will visit Bangladesh soon, US Ambassador to Bangladesh Brent T Christensen said yesterday.

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has removed Mohammad Imdadul Islam, managing director of International Leasing and Financial Services Limited, over irregularities and concealment of information.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) fell short of its nine-month tax collection target by nearly Tk 1 lakh crore, leaving it needing to mobilise over Tk 2.60 lakh crore in the final quarter of fiscal year 2025-26 (FY26).

The government yesterday approved the direct purchase of 1.75 lakh tonnes of diesel and octane from two suppliers, bypassing the standard tender process as concerns deepen over Gulf supply disruptions caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Telecom companies say nationwide connectivity is under pressure as outages hit towers and data infrastructure

Assistant high commissioner of India visited the port city bourse

Australian high commissioner discusses bilateral trade with the minister

The central bank sent a letter in this regard to the chairman of the board of directors of the leasing company on Monday

The conflict between Iran and the United States and Israel is creating the ​worst energy crisis ever faced by the ‌world, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Tuesda

US Ambassador Brent T Christensen shared the information with commerce minister

Fishing, transportation, and marketing of fish in the lake will be suspended from midnight on April 24 and remain in effect until further notice

The US dollar rose ​to its highest level in a week against major currencies on Monday before paring gains as renewed US-Iran tensions and ‌fading hopes for a Middle East peace deal sent investors toward safe havens.

On-demand service platform Sheba.xyz has launched a “Fuel Refuelling Driver Service” that allows customers to hire a driver to queue at a filling station on their behalf and refuel the vehicle. The move has drawn mixed reactions online as fuel shortages continue to grip Dhaka and other cities.

Gold prices fell on Monday as the dollar firmed, while ‌news that the Strait of Hormuz is closed again pushed oil prices higher, reviving inflation fears.

Bangladesh’s LPG market has expanded rapidly in response to real energy needs, and yet the infrastructure supporting this growth has not kept pace.

The initiative has significantly changed lives in the area

A Bangladeshi multinational company, MGH Group, is going to construct the country’s first privately built container terminal at Chattogram port on the bank of the Karnaphuli river in Patenga.

The recent diesel price hike has made service providers increase charges for harvesting the largest rice crop, Boro, irrigating farmlands, and threshing the cash crop maize-- and farmers are struggling to cope.